Kermit the Frog sang the song, "It's not easy being Green". We hear more and more about technologies that are also green - green hard disk drives, green servers, and lower power chips.  Today, I was reading an article on eWeek that two of IBM's Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer prototypes appear at the top of the latest Green500 supercomputer list. You can read about the Green500 list at http://www.green500.org/home.php. For developers, Intel provides an Energy Checker SDK.  The SDK gives developers ...

When you read or hear the term "Big Data" what do you think about?  Do you visualize an extremely large database or data warehouse?  Do you think about architectures and algorithms for storing and processing big data?  When haven't we had big data in relation to the systems and services that we are asked to program?  Is yesterday's big data small data today?  With the Internet and the number of humans creating and consuming data, I guess we do have really big data today and it is only getting bi...

В практической работе у каждого DBA имеется своя специфика. Те, кто работают на "боевых" или как говорят на английском, "production" базах данных - это Operational DBA или Acting DBA. (Будем переводить? Давайте просто обозначим такого сокращенным наименованием ODBA). Те, кто выполняют функции DBA в процессе разработки системы или на серверах разработки и тестовых базах - это "Developing DBA" (DDBA). В основе деятельности ODBA лежат знания и умения, которые дают заказчику надежду уверенн...

As of 5am Pacific Time (UTC -7) this morning we are live with CodeRage 4.  There are two session rooms running at the same time.  Anders Ohlsson is hosting in room #1, and I am running room #2. It's not too late to register and attend!!! This morning at 7am Pacific Time - Michael Rozlog will present the "RAD Studio Product Address" in room number 1. The complete list of sessions and times are available at http://conferences.embarcadero.com/coderage/sessions We also have live chat roo...

When looking to reduce costs an often overlooked area to consider is the overall costs for the tools needed to design, build, and run your databases and applications. A new comparison report, entitled Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Your Application Development and Database Tools”, provides straightforward guidelines for evaluating and comparing costs for database tools. In this comparison report you’ll learn: How “hidden” costs can be four times higher than direct software licensi...

I received an email from a community member asking how to set up a datasource for our database optimization tools and Java optimization tools (DB Optimizer and J Optimizer) to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. "From: Jacques (in Australia) - Hi David, I have installed the Optimization tools. I cannot add a datasource. I am using DBArtisan and i never had any problem creating or connecting to datasource. Is there anything i need to do to see or create a datasource I am trying to connect to MS SQL...

Yesterday, in Moscow, I presented (for the first time) our solution seminar titled "Software + Database Archeology" using Delphi 2009, our database tools, and some third party tools. Thank you to the developers in Moscow for being the first field test viewers. To develop the seminar (with the help of others inside Embarcadero, thanks team), we started with our Software Archeology methodology application development solution and extended it to include the database parts of most applications. ...

We recently announced new application development and database tuning and performance tools.  We are now shipping JOptimizer for Java and DB Optimizer for multiple databases.  These tools help you tune Java and SQL code.  Several magazines and web sites covered the announcement.  You can find the links below. This week we are also having a free webinar, "Code Faster Apps, Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks, Maximize IT Spend", Prevent, Find, Fix: The three step solution for top-performing appl...